Zeller Plastik Gmbh

Jochen Koehn

Klaus Heyn

Sectional bar system

An originality guarantee for closures of containers, particularly bottles. It has a label (12) which, after it has been removed or damaged, indicates that the closure has been opened. The closure portions (4,6) which are to be moved apart when it is opened are provided with flat recesses for receiving the label (12). The recesses merge from one closure portion into the other or others and together have the external shape and size of the label. Such a label indicates that the closure has been opened when it is torn or cut through. The invention also prevents the possibility of the label being removed and glued on again. This purpose can be served by the said recess which makes it impossible for a user to engage beneath the label with a finger nail or a tool and to lift it away. Instead of a recess a horseshoe-shaped wall (22) can be provided which surrounds at least a portion of the label. It may be broken away so that the user has access to the label. The fact that the wall has been broken away and thus that the container has been opened is indicated by remaining upstanding portions of the material. The label may also be provided with an adhesive which only permits a single adhesion step and thus makes it impossible to reapply a removed label after tampering with the contents.

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Munich, Georgia

Jochen Koehn